Palden Lhamo
Female Tibetan Buddhist deity / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Palden Lhamo ("Glorious Goddess",[1][2] Tibetan: དཔལ་ལྡན་ལྷ་མོ།, Wylie: dpal ldan lha mo, Lhasa dialect: [pantɛ̃ l̥amo], Sanskrit: Śrīdēvī)[3] or Shri Devi is a tantric Buddhist (Vajrayana) goddess who appears in various forms.[4] She usually appears as a wrathful deity with a primary role as a dharmapala. She is specifically a Wisdom Protector, an enlightened being.[4]
Palden Lhamo is the special dharmapala of the Dalai Lamas, while the three protectors of his Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism are Yamaraja, Vaisravana, and Mahakala. [5] She is the wrathful deity considered to be the principal protectress of Tibet.
Palden Lhamo appears in the retinue of the Obstacle-Removing Mahakala, either as an independent figure[1] or associated to Ekajati,[6] and has been described as "the tutelary deity of Tibet and its government",[7] and as "celebrated all over Tibet and Mongolia, and the potent protector of the Dalai and Panchen Lamas and Lhasa."[8]